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“roles in True Romance and Crimson Tide—is a young, pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini. Glory, Marshall Herskowitz, 1989. Broadcast News, James L. Brooks, 1986.”
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
― Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
“(Also how Marcel Proust defined the writing job: take two sets of phenomena, find their “common essence.”)”
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
“In one of Updike’s stories about Henry Bech, someone tells the novelist that his books “are weeping, but there are no tears.” “Troubling Love” is soggy with tears — and the blank mood that follows a good long cry — but you can’t isolate the source of the weeping.”
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“History is full of stories that aren’t actually true. —LORD CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON”
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
“What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? —DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND”
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
― The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
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